Saddam Hussein was at the height of his power during the 1980s. At that
time, he was propped up by both Moscow, primarily, and (at the urgings
of the CIA, who were developing close working ties with Hussein's Soviet-
trained Mukabarat) the Reagan Administration, secondarily.

At that height of his power, Saddam Hussein styled himself as the
reincarnation of Nebuchadnezzar 2 (Nebu-kudurri-utsur, or
Nebuchadrezzar). First, Saddam Hussein minted coins with his own
profile superimposed upon that of Nebuchadrezzar [1]. Saddam also
began rebuilding the ruins of ancient Babylon. Saddam put up a large
mural of himself next to Nebuchadrezzar at the entrance to the ruins [3].
Also, Saddam rebuilt the 600-room palace of Nebuchadrezzar [2]. And
echoing Nebuchadrezzar's practice, Saddam had his own name inscribed
on the bricks used in the reconstruction. The inscriptions are reported to
read:

*"This was built by Saddam Hussein, son of Nebuchadnezzar, to glorify
Iraq" (This recalls the ziggurat at Ur, where each individual brick was
stamped with "Ur-Nammu, king of Ur, who built the temple of Nanna")[3]

*"In the era of Saddam Hussein, protector of Iraq, who rebuilt civilization
and rebuilt Babylon." [2]

*"In the era of President Saddam Hussein all Babylon was constructed in
three stages. From Nebuchadnezzar to Saddam Hussein, Babylon is rising
again." [4]

Saddam also built his own "Saddam's Palace" opposite and facing
Nebuchadrezzar's. It is shaped like a Ziggurat and was built in 4 tiers. On
the ceilings and walls of Saddam's palace, 360-degree murals depicted
scenes from ancient Babylon, Ur, and the Tower of Babel.
Throughout, pediments were engraved with the his initials, "SdH" [2].

And, most striking of all, Saddam began renovating the Ziggurat of Ur. He
succeeded in rebuilding the lowest level and entrance staircase (see
"photo 1", [8]). That Ziggurat was laid down at Ur around 2000 BCE by
King Ur-Nammu (sometimes called Zur-Nammu or Ur-Engur [6]) as a
tribute to the God “Sin” and was called “Etemennigur,” which meant “a
house whose foundation creates terror" [5]. Ur-Nammu's successor, King
Shulgi, completed the Ziggurat and declared himself a God [7]. And recall
above how Saddam Hussein echoed the practices of Ur-Nammu by
inscribing his intials throughout monumental buildings.

Thus we see that Saddam Hussein not only stylized himself after
Nebuchadrezzar, who butchered the Sons and Daughters of Abraham in
Jerusalem (seemingly his intended message [1]), but also after Ur-
Nammu, Shulgi, and the "Babylonian Renaissance" of their "3rd Dynasty of
Ur".

That is, Saddam Hussein styled himself a God.

And, through his rebuilding of Babylon, Ur, and seen in his dramatic
artistic recreations of the Tower of Babel, we see that Saddam Hussein
attempted to begin the rebuilding of the Tower of Babel.

And is this even anything new? The answer is a very emphatic "Hell no!"

For Saddam's Marxist Communist God-less God-hating God-denying
God-attacking Soviet masters in Moscow had, long earlier, attempted a
far grander recreation of the Tower of Babel in Moscow itself. That
building, the "Palace of the Soviets", was begun in 1933 over the ruins of
the Eastern Orthodox Cathedral of Christ the Savior, which the
Soviets demolished to make way for the Palace [10]. The "Palace of the
Soviets" was meant to house the World Congress of Soviets [9] (do
recall the globalist aspirations of God-less International Communism).
Construction of Moscow's "Tower of Babel" was only halted by the German
Invasion and Guderian's Panzers nearing Moscow in the winter of 1941,
which forced the Soviets to tear down the hegemonic steel skeleton to
use for building tanks.

Today, another skyscraper vaguely reminiscent of the "Tower of Babel" is
being erected in the nation of Dubai (the very same that has been in the
news recently). The Burj Dubai ["Dubai Tower"], begun in 2005:

*"The tower goes up in steps in a spiralling way. In Islamic architecture,
this symbolises ascending towards the heavens." [11]

*In the middle, the silver tower looks like a gigantic arrow reaching
halfway to the heavens. [11]

*"You know that the exact height is a secret," says Mr Smith. "But it is
going to be substantially taller than the highest building, taller than 600
metres." (Note that heights of, say, 660, 665, or 670 meters would,
technically, satisfy that promise) [11]

Please rationally analyze the following logic:

Let us assume you now accept that Saddam Hussein styled himself a
Babylonian God-man Priest King

Let us assume that all Muslims are compelled, by the tenants of Islam,
to condemn the Tower of Babel as a Satanic work

Then, by logic, the tenants of Islam would demand that Saddam
Hussein (who tried to rebuild the Tower of Babel) and God-less
Communists (who also tried to rebuild the Tower of Babel, and helped
Saddam Hussein in the same efforts) be condemned

And, likewise, anybody who aids or abetts Saddam Hussein, or
who stands on the same side of the battlefield as Saddam Hussein,
similarly be condemned (for siding with those who would rebuild the
Tower of Babel)

Now, first, am I correct in assuming that Islam condemns the Tower of
Babel -- as a time of suffering when even pregnant mothers were forced
to work even in the last hour of their pregnancy, and to put their newborn
infants in their aprons and keep on making bricks for the tower [9] ?

And, next, have I persuasively argued that Saddam Hussein styled himself
a Babylonian God-man Priest King? I acknowledge that Hussein probably
never made a "confession of the mouth" openly saying, for all the world
to hear, that he was a Babylonian God-man Priest King. Nevertheless,
"deeds speak louder than words", and I am arguing Hussein made a
"confession of the hand", if you will, to his own divinity, by styling himself
(unambiguously) as the reincarnation of Ur-Nammu, Shulgi, and Nebu-
kudurri-utsur (Nebuchadrezzar).

If my facts are complete and sound, and my logic is sound, then
you are compelled to accept my conclusions -- and any refusal to do so
can rightly be labelled "irrational".

On the other hand, if my facts are either incomplete or false, or if my
logic is flawed, then you can rationally reject my conclusions.

So, are my facts and logic sound, or are they somewhere flawed? If they
are flawed, where? And what is the truth of the matter?

For the record, I have not here asserted my own glorious awesomeness.
Almighty God knows the Truth -- everything else is just hot air. But I do
want to know the Truth as best I am able.

And I don't want to make no frigging bricks. (The oh-so-cool oooh-la-la
Tower of Babel was 463 cubits = 694 feet tall. I could buy a $50 toy
rocket that shoots up to 1000 feet or more. I've climbed mountains --
God's Towers -- at 12,500 feet. Writing was a majorcontribution to the advancement of Mankind. Thanks. But I don't see the
big deal in a big heap of bricks. You want a roadway to the Heavens?
Build a space-port. Think about it. I didn't say anybody cares. I
just said, I don't see where I'm straying from facts & logic.)

I am not sure what your point in writing this is. To see if Muslims will defend Saddam? I do not think you will find many Muslims who defend Saddam, however, that does not mean that we defend the war in Iraq either.

If your logic is sound, then the USA must also be called God-less and blood guilty, as they did support Saddam with money and weaponry at the height of his power, and during the height of his most barbaric atrocities.

-------------It is only with the heart that one can see clearly, what is essential is invisible to the eye. (The Little Prince)

Posted By: Bismarck
Date Posted: 19 May 2006 at 8:23pm

Originally posted by Mishmish

I am not sure what your point in writing this is. To
see if Muslims will defend Saddam? I do not think you will find many
Muslims who defend Saddam, however, that does not mean that we
defend the war in Iraq either.

If your logic is sound, then the USA must also be called God-less and
blood guilty, as they did support Saddam with money and weaponry at
the height of his power, and during the height of his most barbaric
atrocities.

Let us say my logic is sound.

How then would Muslims fight along side Saddam Loyalists?

You will note that, all told, America has also twice fought Saddam.
So, if my logic is sound, and Saddam Hussein willfully sowed
Brutalitarian terror just like the whole line of Nimrod before him,
then every time anyone aids/abets Hussein, they must be
condemned...

and everytime they attack Hussein, they must be lauded...

Please do note:

NOT EVERY AMERICAN WAS HAPPY ABOUT THE DECISION TO LEAVE
HUSSEIN IN POWER IN 1991... NOR THE SIMILAR DECISION TO BETRAY THE
KURDS SHORTLY THEREAFTER... NOT ALL 250,000,000 MILLION
AMERICANS WERE CONSULTED IN A GIANT PUBLIC POLL, WHERE THEY
CAME TOGETHER AND SAID, "HEY IT'D BE REALLY COOL TO SELL THE
KURDS OUT AND WATCH THEM DIE, DUDES, THAT'D BE REALLY FRIGGING
RAD, MAN!" THE WILLFULL CHOICE TO SACRIFICE THE KURDS TO KEEP
THE MARXIST COMMIE RED HUSSEIN IN POWER WAS, RATHER, MADE BY
FAR FEWER PEOPLE -- PEOPLE, INCIDENTALLY, WITH A THEN DECADE'S
LONG WORKING RELATIONSHIP WITH HUSSEIN'S SOVIET-TRAINEDMUKABARAT DEVELOPED DURING THE IRAN-IRAQ WAR... THERE ARE
MANY MONIED INDIVIDUALS WITH POWER ALL OF WHOSE FAVORITE
COLORS ARE RED... FYI, IF SENATOR JOE McCARTHY HAD BEEN HEEDED,
AND NOT ASSASSINATED, AMERICA AND THE WORLD WOULD BE WAY
BETTER OFF... ASSUMING YOU ARE FAMILIAR WITH THE SAYING "DON'T
THROW OUT THE BABY WITH THE BATH-WATER", IS IT THE
BABY'S FAULT THAT SOMEBODY SLYLY PISSES IN ITS BATH-WATER WHEN
NOBODY ELSE IS LOOKING?

That's not logically the same as saying, however, that "America is
categorically evil".

My America, and my America alone, put a man on another Heavenly
Body (the Moon). But that's worth nothing as far as getting
American politicians to stay loyal to America.

Genesis 3.

The Bad Guy's whole show, the whole way the Bad Guy tricks, dupes,
games, and plays the whole world, is by POLLUTING Good with Bad, and
thereby tricking you into making an errant judgement.

Posted By: DavidC
Date Posted: 19 May 2006 at 9:26pm

Why would Muslims care about a ziggurat, much less imagine it to be the Tower of Babel or consider a structure touched by God to be satanic?

I gotta admit though, ziggurat is a kewl word. It would be fun to be able to use it more often.

-------------David C.

Posted By: Amirul
Date Posted: 19 May 2006 at 9:31pm

Originally posted by Mishmish

I am not sure what your point in writing this is. To see if Muslims will defend Saddam? I do not think you will find many Muslims who defend Saddam, however, that does not mean that we defend the war in Iraq either.

If your logic is sound, then the USA must also be called God-less and blood guilty, as they did support Saddam with money and weaponry at the height of his power, and during the height of his most barbaric atrocities.

Yes,you are right.Many muslim hate Saddam including me.He a tyrant,but we also hate the America because cause a great suffer to our muslim brother and sister at Iraq.

Posted By: mariyah
Date Posted: 20 May 2006 at 5:21pm

Originally posted by Amirul

Originally posted by Mishmish

I am not sure what your point in writing this is. To see if Muslims will defend Saddam? I do not think you will find many Muslims who defend Saddam, however, that does not mean that we defend the war in Iraq either.

If your logic is sound, then the USA must also be called God-less and blood guilty, as they did support Saddam with money and weaponry at the height of his power, and during the height of his most barbaric atrocities.

Yes,you are right.Many muslim hate Saddam including me.He a tyrant,but we also hate the America because cause a great suffer to our muslim brother and sister at Iraq.

Asalaamu walaikum:

I hope this hate is not directed at Muslims who happen to be American?

-------------"Every good deed is charity whether you come to your brother's assistance or just greet him with a smile.

Posted By: Amirul
Date Posted: 21 May 2006 at 12:05am

Originally posted by Maryah

Originally posted by Amirul

Originally posted by Mishmish

I am not sure what your point in writing this is. To see if Muslims will defend Saddam? I do not think you will find many Muslims who defend Saddam, however, that does not mean that we defend the war in Iraq either.

If your logic is sound, then the USA must also be called God-less and blood guilty, as they did support Saddam with money and weaponry at the height of his power, and during the height of his most barbaric atrocities.

Yes,you are right.Many muslim hate Saddam including me.He a tyrant,but we also hate the America because cause a great suffer to our muslim brother and sister at Iraq.

Asalaamu walaikum:

I hope this hate is not directed at Muslims who happen to be American?

I do not hate the people of America accept if they support the war in Iraq and Afgannistan.

-------------

Posted By: Bismarck
Date Posted: 22 May 2006 at 10:59pm

Originally posted by Amirul

Originally posted by Maryah

Originally posted by Amirul

Originally posted by Mishmish

I am not sure what your point in writing this is. To see if Muslims will
defend Saddam? I do not think you will find many Muslims who defend
Saddam, however, that does not mean that we defend the war in Iraq
either.

If your logic is sound, then the USA must also be called God-less and
blood guilty, as they did support Saddam with money and weaponry at
the height of his power, and during the height of his most barbaric
atrocities.

Yes,you are right.Many muslim hate Saddam including me.He a
tyrant,but we also hate the America because cause a great suffer to our
muslim brother and sister at Iraq.

<FONT face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" color=#990000
size=4>I hope this hate is not directed at Muslims who happen to be
American?

I do not hate the people of America accept if they support the war in
Iraq and Afgannistan.

American soldiers do not blow up Shi'ite Mosques and markets.

Al Queda, working SHOULDER TO SHOULDER with SADDAM LOYALISTS...

that is, MARXIST COMMUNIST GOD-DENYING BA'ATHISTS...

do.

Why is America more evil than GODLESS COMMUNISTS and their ALLIES?

Posted By: Bismarck
Date Posted: 22 May 2006 at 11:01pm

I utterly fail to see how ANYBODY is worse, in the eyes of True Belief, than
a GOD-LESS...

GOD-DENYING...

GOD-HATING...

GOD-ATTACKING...

Marxist Communist Red -- or ANYBODY who AIDS, ABETTS, a Red.

Commie Reds = EVIL.

Posted By: Sign*Reader
Date Posted: 23 May 2006 at 7:52pm

Bismarck :Let us say my logic is sound.

SR:

Your logic here is akin
to the old adage the politics makes strange bed fellows. Your logic is ===head I win tail you lose.

Bismarck:How then would Muslims fight along side Saddam
Loyalists?

SR:No Muslim is fighting along Saddam—what is this Saddam loyalist nonsense? If he
had any animals like that he wouldn’t be found and sit in that trial box. You broke the law you fix it --good luckBismarck: You will note that, all told, America has also twice fought Saddam.Sr: Rubbish, it was a ploy to dump dated American ammunition at premium prices
while emptying Kuwaiti & Saudi idiots deep pockets. And also keep the neo colonialism live and well. The problrm is the arabs have been gone too far down the devolution path due by some their own but mostly the Turkish imperialism.

Bismarck:So, if my logic is sound, and Saddam
Hussein willfully sowed
Brutalitarian terror just like the whole line of Nimrod before
him,
then every time anyone aids/abets Hussein, they must be condemned... SR: Who set him up in first place? You wouldn't know the sound logic if it hit you in the face Bismarck:and everytime they attack Hussein, they must be lauded...SR:What is there to attack a haggard old man sitting in a cell block.Bismark: NOT EVERY AMERICAN WAS HAPPY ABOUT THE DECISION TO LEAVE HUSSEIN IN POWER IN 1991... NOR THE SIMILAR DECISION TO BETRAY THE KURDS SHORTLY THEREAFTER... NOT ALL 250,000,000 MILLION AMERICANS WERE CONSULTED IN A GIANT PUBLIC POLL, WHERE THEY CAME TOGETHER AND SAID, "HEY IT'D BE REALLY COOL TO SELL THE KURDS OUT AND WATCH THEM DIE, DUDES, THAT'D BE REALLY FRIGGING RAD, MAN!" THE WILLFULL CHOICE TO SACRIFICE THE KURDS TO KEEP

THE MARXIST COMMIE RED
HUSSEIN IN POWER WAS, RATHER, MADE BY FAR FEWER PEOPLE -- PEOPLE, INCIDENTALLY, WITH A THEN DECADE'S

LONG WORKING RELATIONSHIP
WITH HUSSEIN'S SOVIET-TRAINEDMUKABARAT DEVELOPED DURING THE IRAN-IRAQ WAR...

S*R: >>>>>>>>>>>YOU ARE BLOWING SMOKE TO
COVERUPTHE BAD DEEDS OF YOUR COUNTRYMEN
WHO EXTENDED ALL SERVICES WITH CREDIT TO SADDAM IN ORDER TO FLEECE HIS NATION AT
EXORBITANT PRICES. THEY COULD BUY ANYTHING THAT THEY COULD NAME ( THE BILLS WERE BEING PAID BY THE SAUDIS & KUWAITIS).

>>>>DARN IT YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND
YOUR SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT THE POLLS DON’T MEAN SXXX. NO HARM>> TO AMERICAN LIVES OR POCKET BOOKS NO FOUL ON THE
GOVERNMENT PART. I BET MOST AMEICANS WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO PICK IRAQ OR KURDISTAN ON THE MAP. IT IS GOVERNMENT JOB ASSIGNED BY THE CORPORATE WORLD TO FEED THE AMERICAN ASSEMBLYLINE HELL COME HIGH WATER, THE MIDEASTERN OILNEEDS TO FLOW THIS WAY.

BISMARCK:

THERE ARE MANY MONIED INDIVIDUALS WITH POWER ALL OF WHOSE FAVORITE COLORS ARE RED... FYI, IF SENATOR JOE McCARTHY HAD BEEN HEEDED, AND NOT ASSASSINATED,AMERICA AND THE WORLD WOULD BE WAY BETTER OFF...

SR: MY GOD
>>>>>>>>SO YOU ARE A MCCATHIST –YOUR GUY WHO IS REPORTED AS FOLLOWS IN WIKIPEDIA

In 1952, Hank Greenspun wrote articles alleging that both McCarthy and Roy Cohn, his chief counsel,
were homosexuals. In the Las Vegas Sun Greenspun wrote "It is
common talk among homosexuals in Milwaukee who rendezvous in the White Horse Inn that Senator Joe McCarthy has
often engaged in homosexual activities." [3]
The following year at the age of 44 McCarthy married Jean Kerr, a researcher in
his office. He and his wife adopted a baby girl in January 1957[4].
Decades later, Cohn's homosexuality became widely known as he began to
physically suffer from HIV. He died of AIDS in 1986.

Journalist Richard Rovere (1959) wrote:

There have been descriptions of him as having spent his last years in
an unbroken alcoholic stupor. These descriptions are inaccurate. He had always
been a heavy drinker, and there were times in those seasons of discontent when
he drank more than ever. But he was not always drunk. He went on the wagon (for
him this meant beer instead of whiskey) for days and weeks at a time. The
difficulty toward the end was that he couldn't hold the stuff. He went to
pieces on his second or third drink. And he did not snap back quickly.

It was reported that McCarthy suffered from cirrhosis and was frequently
hospitalized for alcoholism. Numerous eyewitnesses, including Senate aide George
Reedy and journalist Tom Wicker, have reported finding him alarmingly drunk in
the Senate. However, conservative activist William A. Rusher, who knew McCarthy
personally, claimed that his drinking was moderate in his last years.

He died of acute hepatitis in BethesdaNavalHospital on May 2, 1957, at the age of 48, and was given a
state funeral attended by 70 Senators. St. Matthew's Cathedral performed a
Solemn Pontifical Requiem before over a hundred priests and 2,000 others.
Thousands of people viewed the body in Washington,
and McCarthy was the first senator in 17 years to have funeral services in the
Senate chamber. He was buried in St. Mary's ParishCemetery, Appleton,
Wisconsin. More than 30,000 Wisconsinites
filed through St. Mary's Church to pay their last respects to him. Three
senators — George Malone, William E Jenner, and Herman Welker — had flown from Washington
to Appleton on the plane carrying
McCarthy's casket. He was survived by his wife Jean, and their adopted
daughter, Tierney.

You want to intimidate
here with your McCarthyism!!!! yell and scream. ALSO STOP STATING THE FICTION
AS FACT.

ACCORDING
TO THE ABOVE INFO Joe McCarthy was MAN
OF QUESTIONABLE character.

DO YOU KNOWAS A SUPPORTER AND PROPONENT OF IRAQI
EXPEDITION YOU HAVE PUT THE AMERICA IN RED BY AT LEAST $500,000,000,000 AND MOST OF IT DEBT TO THE MARXISTCHINA. DO YOU UNDERSTAND THE ENORMITY OF THIS WASTE?

WHILE IT
NEEDS TWO PAYCHECKS TO PAY BILLS AND MOST AMERICANS SAY THE
COUNTRY IS HEADED IN WRONG DIRECTION. WE WILL SEE ANSWER PRETTY SOON--IN
NOVEMBER.

IN IRAQ YOU HAVE CREATED THE MOST CORRUPT AND MISERABLE ENVIRONMENT
FOR THE PEOPLE EVER IN THE HISTORY OF THAT COUNTRY.

On the Stateside the price
of gas is touching $4 a gallon. What sense you are making yelling anti Nebuchadnezzar
rhetoric in this day and age.

Nebuchadnezzar did what
he was told to do by God to teach rebellious Israelites a lesson and that was thousands of year ago.

Guess what; who robed
most the antiquities of Nebuchadnezzar timeframe from its museums after the invasion
?===Right answer>>>>>>Americans and their Brit buddies. How about
the cash and gold??